Per Wahlöö Livres

" Vous qui aimez le genre policier comme un genre exotique, vous qui ne situez ces histoires que dans le cadre étriqué des Etats-Unis ou de l'Europe, ouvrez-vous enfin d'autres horizons. C'est fini l'outre-Atlantique, l'outre-Manche, l'outre-Quiévrain, voici venir l'outre-Baltique. Car, à Stockholm (Suède), il s'en passe de belles : meurtre de policier, assassinat collectif et silencieux dans un autobus, viol, tueur fou. Peu original, me direz-vous. Erreur, car sous des dehors glacés (l'hiver surtout) et une société rationalisée, la Suède cache une logique froide. L'inspecteur Beck et son équipe poursuivent autant le mystère que le rétablissement d'un ordre bousculé ".

" Quand Per et moi nous nous sommes rencontrés, il avait déjà écrit trois romans politiques, non policiers, qui ne s'étaient pas très bien vendus. J'étais intéressée par la criminologie, et Per avait été reporter criminel. On a commencé à discuter des romans policiers qui, dans ces années-là, en Suède, étaient très bourgeois et anglo-saxons, et on a imaginé un roman policier social qui montrerait comment la police travaillait réellement. " Le Matin, 10 mars 1987.

The fourth in the Martin Beck series. One blustery November evening someone guns down eight occupants of a Stockholm bus - one of whom was a colleague of Martin Beck's. Eight people together purely by coincidence - perhaps. But, above all, why was that policeman - a solitary and ambitious man - on that bus?

An American senator is visiting Stockholm. A group of terrorists is determined to assassinate him. Detective Inspector Martin Beck is determined to stop them. At the same time, there is the ambiguous case of a young woman on trial, the latest in a long string of bank robberies, and a millionaire porn filmmaker found brutally murdered.

A woman is found dead in Anderslöv, a small village in southern Sweden. While Martin Beck investigates her murder, his colleague Larsson becomes embroiled in the hunt for two men responsible for the death of a policeman during a shoot out on the open road. Are the two cases related?

With a New Introduction by Colin Dexter The cunning incendiary device that blew the roof off a Stockholm apartment not only interrupted the small, peaceful orgy underway inside, it nearly took the lives of the building's eleven occupants. And if one of Martin Beck's colleagues hadn't been on the scene, the explosion would have led to a major catastrophe since-for reasons nobody could satisfactorily explain-a regulation firetruck has vanished. Was it terrorism, suicide, or simply a gas leak? And what, if anything, did the explosion have to do with the peculiar death earlier that day of a forty-six-year-old bachelor whose cryptic suicide note consisted of only two words: “Martin Beck”?

The Seventh Classic Instalment In This Genre-Changing Series Of Novels Featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck. On A Quiet Night A High-Ranking Police Officer, Nyland, Is Slaughtered In His Hospital Bed, Brutally Massacred With A Bayonet. It'S Not Hard To Find People With A Motive To Kill Him; In Fact The Problem For Detective Inspector Martin Beck Is How To Narrow The List Down To One Suspect. But As He Investigates Nyland'S Murder He Must Confront Whether He Is Willing To Risk His Life For His Job. Written In The 1960S, These Masterpieces Are The Work Of Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo A Husband And Wife Team From Sweden. The Ten Novels Follow The Fortunes Of The Detective Martin Beck, Whose Enigmatic, Taciturn Character Has Inspired Countless Other Policemen In Crime Fiction. The Novels Can Be Read Separately, But Do Follow A Chronological Order, So The Reader Can Become Familiar With The Characters And Develop A Loyalty To The Series. Each Book Will Have A New Introduction In Order To Help Bring These Books To A New Audience.

In one part of town, a woman robs a bank. In another, a corpse is found shot through the heart in a room locked from within, with no firearm in sight. Although the two incidents appear unrelated, Detective Inspector Martin Beck believes otherwise, and solving the mystery acquires the utmost importance.

Commissioner Martin Beck's associates begin a search for a ladder truck whose disappearance resulted in the death of eleven people.